I was more upset about being dumped than I thought I would be, especially considering that I was still pretty unsure about her. Yeah, she was pretty, but she wasn’t funny! It’s not that she didn’t have a sense of humor—she thought I was funny—but how do you have multiple extended conversations with someone who isn’t funny?

I wrote this unfinished, unpublished article for a small video game and entertainment website that is still in operation today, and pretty successful for its size. I had been out of college for six months and was unemployed, depressed, and living with my parents (incredibly, there isn’t a huge demand for philosopher-poets in the workforce).